Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
IMO Temporary Duty potentially will be a huge hit to manning and overtime. It is a step in the direction of making ATL an even bigger pilot base than it is... I foresee the company making any/all category/s in Atlanta bigger while not increasing time and then using TDY to "right size" an outlying base on a month to month basis. This is NOT good for the pilot group.
You have not convinced me of what your last sentence says. You can say that all you want. The devil is in the details and you haven't provided any. I don't like the company's potential in our details. I think it's a baaad idea. Like I said in a previous post, it's probably not going to effect me much if it is implemented. I'd end up being more senior in category but probably lose out on overtime because of more pilots in a category with the same amount of flying.
Any way, it's been a good discussion and I'm sorry if I've ticked you off.
Denny
We were trying to talk about different things. My point is simply that TDYs as a whole aren't necessarily all that bad, it just depends on how the contract is written. I'm not arguing for TDYs as currently written in the contract, just saying that we could get them changed in a way that made for a good deal for us and one that cost the company enough to not use them much at all.
An important thing about TDY rules in the contract is to limit them in a way that they can't be regularly done to the same places. IE, you can't just have a TDY of 777 pilots to DTW every spring from any base. If done correctly, I see the biggest use of the TDYs as allowing staffing changes that need to be done quickly while waiting for the AE process to provide the permanent pilots.
You haven't ticked me off, sorry if I came across that way. I was just tired and posting before going to sleep.